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by astralasia 82 days ago
Microsoft’s real goal is selling Copilot seats and pushing Azure, not building a neutral playground for third-party agents. There is just no money for them in being the backend for someone else's AI. As for the AI spam, GitHub's internal metrics have always been tied to engagement and PR volume. Blocking all that AI slop would instantly drop their growth numbers, so it is easier for them to just pass the cleanup cost onto open-source maintainers.
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No disagreement here. Just very short sighted.